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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 12, 1881

LOS ANGELES.

By W. M. Healey; J. G. Hurley

WE continue to have fair audiences. Last Sabbath we organized a Sabbath-school with fifty-one members. Spirituality is at a low ebb in this place, as well as elsewhere. The Roman Catholics control a great part of the place. And some of those who call themselves Protestants, are not far out of Rome. Some ministers have forbidden their people going to the tent. And as a sample of how little they regard the truth, I give the following:— A minister claiming to be free from sin, stated that he procured a tract here, denying the divinity of Christ. The following will show as samples of ignorance. One company who claim to keep the first day in honor of the resurrection, have come to the conclusion that the week begins on Monday, and so Sunday is the seventh day as well as the first. One of our missionary workers met a young woman who informed him that she understood these things. That she was a member of the ------ church and taught a class in their Sunday-school, and her business is tending bar, which she does on Sunday the same as other days, after she has taught her class in Sunday-school. Surely Babylon is becoming the habitation of devils, and the cage of unclean birds. Rev. 18:3.

But there are intelligent honest souls here for whom we labor, and believe they will come out from such confusion. About forty have signed the covenant. W. M. HEALEY. J. G. HURLEY.